The Alabama Slammer is pure 1970s swagger in a glass – bright, brash, and not remotely interested in subtlety. It first showed up during the decade’s anything-goes cocktail boom, with roots often traced to the University of Alabama, where it became a game-day staple. Whether it was born behind a bar or in a college
The Air Mail is what happens when rum decides to dress up for Champagne service. Born in Cuba sometime in the early 20th century, most likely during the golden age of Havana’s bar scene, the Air Mail is often linked to Bacardi’s early cocktail booklets from the 1930s, when rum was busy reinventing itself as
Shoreditch’s vibrant Old Street welcomes a bold new neighbourhood cocktail bar, FlipDog, within Imperial Hall. Founded by Ukrainian visionaries Artem Skapenko and Alex Kostenyuk, FlipDog bring a fresh perspective to London’s cocktail scene with an inventive, method-driven drinks programme led by Head Bartender Igor Brovko, alongside a distinctive food offering by Chef Anton Vasyliev. Designed
Have you noticed how certain cocktails taste better in the places they come from? Take a Limoncello Spritz, enjoyed right on the Amalfi Coast, compared with the same order at a cocktail bar in Ohio. The difference becomes obvious right away, and it’s not because of the ingredients or the mixing method. When you’re on
At the St Regis it’s two, two bars in one. Our guest is well aware of that fact – preparing a perfectly executed Negroni at noon on a sun-drenched terrace… and then later that evening a Warhol-worthy cocktail set in a bespoke glass. Today I’m sitting down with Ludwig Negri, Manager of The St. Regis
Italian Vermouth Cocchi has collaborated with the American Bar team at London’s Savoy Hotel to pay tribute to one of the venue’s legendary cocktails, The Hanky Panky. Originally invented in the early 1900s by Ada “Coley” Coleman, the first female head bartender at the American Bar, for the famous actor Charles Hawtrey, the Hanky Panky
The Isola di Pino at Experimental Cocktail Club Venice is the kind of drink that makes you raise an eyebrow… and then immediately order another. Vodka, coffee liqueur and amaro sounds straightforward enough. It isn’t. The salted sugar syrup gives it that little wink — not sweet-sweet, but savoury, rich, slightly mysterious. It’s silky, grown-up,
Giacosa is one of Florence’s most iconic venues, with roots dating back to 1815 in Torino before arriving in Florence in 1860. In 1927, it settled on Via Tornabuoni, within the historic walls of “Casoni,” where in 1919 Count Camillo Negroni famously asked bartender Fosco Scarselli to add gin to his Americano, creating the legendary
Favoured by the world’s most discerning elite, each batch of Seventy One Gin includes top notes of the exceptionally rare Queen of the Night Cactus Flower – a flower so elusive it blooms just once a year, and only at night. Aged in oak casks for exactly 71 nights, Seventy One Gin ensures that